Russian Press at a Glance, Monday, July 25, 2011

NORWEGIAN TRAGEDY
Twin attacks that hit Norway on Friday claimed lives of at least 93 people. A massive explosion ripped through the government headquarters in Oslo, killing seven. Several hours later, a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at young people who had gathered at the summer camp on the Utoya Island, killing over 80.
(Vedomosti, Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, The Moscow News)

POLITICS
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he supports the expansion of borders of the Russian capital into the Moscow Region
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin has denounced a growing practice of replacing elected mayors with hired city managers as "ineffective."
(The Moscow Times)

ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Russia’s state oil company Zarubezhneft announced that it is leaving joint projects in Tunisia and Myanmar, citing excessive risk
(Kommersant)

Expat managers kicked out of airline Avianova in an apparent shareholder dispute will sue the company over allegations of wrongdoing
(The Moscow Times)

WORLD
Kazakhstan’s presidential adviser on political issues, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, said in an interview with Kommersant that the country’s next president may be Timur Kulibayev, current President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s son-in-law
(Kommersant)

Latvia held a nationwide referendum on Saturday in which most voters supported the dissolution of the country’s parliament
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

RELIEF OPERATIONS
Salvage crews have succeeded in bringing the wreck of the sunken cruise vessel Bulgaria to the surface of the Volga River
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta)

IT
The first claims have been submitted with courts after text messages sent via one of Russia’s top mobile operators, MegaFon, showed up in searches on Yandex search engine
(Kommersant)

CRIME
The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that police killed three militants in the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, including a local warlord and a woman trained as a suicide bomber
(Kommersant)

A terrorist organization in Russia’s North Caucasus took the responsibility of last month murder of Yury Budanov, the former Russian army colonel who served nine years for the murder of a Chechen woman during the second war in Chechnya
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

CULTURE
British soul singer Amy Winehouse, famous for her drug and alcohol use, was found dead in her London apartment on July 23
(Kommersant)

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